At Symantec's behest, Google has removed three Android apps from the Play Store because these apps used various tricks to fool security scanners and deliver unwanted ads to the people that installed them.

The European Union announced today an agreement between various regulating bodies and mobile carriers that will help eliminate in most part roaming charges across the EU space starting with June 15, 2016.

Scientists from universities in China and the UK have published research that details a novel method that breaks Android's pattern lock system based on videos of people entering their patterns from distances of up to nine meters away.

The way users move fingers across a phone's touchscreen alters the WiFi signals transmitted by a mobile phone, causing interruptions that an attacker can intercept, analyze, and reverse engineer to accurately guess what the user has typed on his phone or in password input fields.

Google released today Android's Security Bulletin for the month of November, which among a total of 83 security vulnerabilities has also patched two high profile bugs identified as Drammer and Dirty COW.

Crooks distributing the Svpeng Android banking trojan have discovered a flaw in how Google Chrome for Android handles file downloads and have used it to forcibly and secretly download their malicious payload on the devices of over 318,000 users in the span of three months, starting with July 2016.

Three researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong discovered a flaw in how app developers and identity providers support Single-Sign-On (SSO) via the OAuth 2.0 protocol, a flaw that allows an attacker to assume the identity of another person.